[whatwg] Storage Events for a Specific Storage Area
Joseph Pecoraro
joepeck02 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 19 21:07:09 PDT 2009
It sounds like there wasn't any discussion on this. I recently heard
talk of other potential Storage areas [2]. That would make this idea
even more appealing to me. Does this sound like something worth
adding? Any comments?
[2]: http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-June/020485.html
On Jun 17, 2009, at 1: 44PM, Joseph Pecoraro wrote:
> The "storage" event [1] fires for both sessionStorage and
> localStorage. To me, this means if you only want to interact with
> localStorage you will have to manually ensure that it is the storage
> area being modified:
>
> window.addEventListener('storage', function(e) {
> if ( e.storageArea === localStorage ) {
> // ...
> }
> }
>
> Was there any discussion about creating events specific to the
> storage object, or should that already be possible? I've been
> playing around with WebKit's Storage implementation, and the
> following (understandably) is not possible:
>
> > localStorage.addEventListener
> undefined
>
> Is there any way to listen to events for a single specific storage
> area or is the previously mentioned approach preferred?
>
> Cheers,
> Joe
>
> [1]: http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/#the-storage-event
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